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Collecting from the Margins - Material Culture in a Latin American Context (Paperback)
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Collecting from the Margins - Material Culture in a Latin American Context (Paperback)
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From the cabinets of wonder of the Renaissance to the souvenir
collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing
objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are
and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has
been instrumental in the consolidation of modern notions of the
individual and of the nation, and numerous studies have discussed
its complex political, social, economic, anthropological, and
psychological implications. However, studies of collecting as
practiced in colonized cultures are few, since the role of these
cultures has usually been understood as that of purveyors of
objects for the metropolitan collector. Collecting from the
Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American Context seeks to
counter the historical understanding of collecting that posits the
metropolis as collecting subject and the colonial or postcolonial
society as supplier of collectible objects by asking instead how
collecting has been practiced and understood in Latin America. Has
collecting been viewed or portrayed differently in a Latin American
context? Does the act of collecting, when viewed from a Latin
American perspective, unsettle the way we have become accustomed to
think about it? What differences, if any, arise in the activity of
collecting in colonized or previously colonial societies? Spanning
the period after the independence wars until the 1980s, this
collection of ten essays addresses a broad range of examples of
collecting practices in Latin America. Collecting during the
nineteenth century is addressed in discussions of the creation of
the first national museums of Argentina and Colombia in the
post-independence period, as well as in analyses of the private
collections of modernistas such as Enrique Gomez Carrillo, Ruben
Dario, Jose Asuncion Silva, and Delmira Agustini at the end of the
nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The practice
of collecting in the twentieth century is discussed in analyses of
the self-described revolutionary practices of Oswald de Andrade,
Augusto de Campos and the films of Ruy Guerra, as well as the
polemical collections of Pablo Neruda, and the unsettling
collections portrayed in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years
of Solitude.
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